Crony capitalism related news.
Here one sees quite clearly why it is that the bureaucracy, the biggest part of the swamp, so fears Trump. He is actually calling for significant cuts to agencies that should have been cut years ago, and deeply. Some...
More often than not they are unfair.
China, the world’s Ultimate Crony Capitalist State, is taking it on the chin right now.
This is a curious coincidence.
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(From AP News) The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation of child sexual abuse inside the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania, using subpoenas to demand confidential files and testimony from church leaders, according to two people familiar with the...
(From The Guardian) Weapons of war have been used to indiscriminately kill and injure anti-government protesters in Nicaragua, as part of the ongoing violent crackdown ordered by the upper echelons of government, according to an Amnesty International investigation. At least...
(From UPI) The Mexican government sent federal police to its southern border to intercept a caravan of migrants headed toward the United States. Mexico’s Interior and Foreign Relations ministries said in a joint statement that migrants without the required documentation...
(From UPI) Speaking to press before a Cabinet meeting, Trump said he would ask every secretary to make a cut of 5 percent “if not more” in 2019 after data released by the Treasury Department on Monday showed the U.S....
(From Reuters) British Prime Minister Theresa May signaled on Thursday she would consider extending a so-called transition period “for a matter of months” after Britain leaves the European Union, a move her critics say is a betrayal of Brexit. Less...
(From AP News) European Union leaders are set Thursday to push ahead with plans to boost cooperation with North African countries and beef up the bloc’s borders in an effort to stop migrants entering Europe. . . . Well over...
(From The Hill) [Sen. Bob] Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told The Washington Post that the administration had “clamped down” on sharing intelligence about Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi government who...
(From Reuters) Four major U.S. public funds that hold shares in Facebook Inc on Wednesday proposed removing Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg as chairman following several high-profile scandals and said they hoped to gain backing from larger asset managers. ....
By Ron Paul Last week the United States, Mexico, and Canada agreed to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with a new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Sadly, instead of replacing NAFTA’s managed trade with true free trade,...
This is not a partisan statement but I think the Republicans, generally speaking, and for all their sins (and there are many) have been pretty darn fair in light of what we’ve come to know happened at the FBI and...
When people like Nancy Pelosi, or Liz Warren, or Rachael Maddow talk about “empowering women,” they don’t mean all women. They mean women who agree with them. They mean members of the gender union who follow commands and talking points blindly in the name...
We have issues with Justice Kavanaugh on a number of points, particularly around the 4th Amendment. If he continues to rule for the police state, which he very possibly will, we will be disappointed and we will call him...
